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RE: Anarchy Gardening in a French Squat:Nomadic Family
When we were travelling in our trailer, I really missed my garden, my fresh eggs & milking our goats. I respect and admire the nomadic lifestyle, but I would really struggle with my attachment to the above mentioned things in the long term. That must have been very hard to see the garden decimated like that! I speak from experience as our hens got into our garden a few times and once we had our goats escape their area and destroy TEN new fruit trees!! Anyway, I'm glad you got the opportunity to have a creative outlet for your permaculture knowledge.
Thanks @crowbarmama, we're in Spain at the moment and I have been growing some food here, but we hope to move on soon. I have always grown herbs and salad whilst moving and at other times Tomato and strawberries. One day we would like to have our own piece of paradise and plant a food forest. But we just don't have the funds yet. But being nomadic has allowed us to learn so much.
Forgive me if I missed it, since I haven't been here that long, but how did you grow while moving? Do you try to stay in one place long enough? And if so, is it public land or friends' place? I'm just so curious! When we were planning our adventure in our travel trailer, I was so worried about being able to find good eggs and milk, I was trying to figure out a way to take a goat and a couple hens with us! Could you imagine? And we were going to be staying mostly in RV parks because my husband was working as a software developer from home so we had to be close enough to town for internet service. We were thinking of building a portable chicken tractor that we could take in the bed of the truck! Crazy, right? Lol... Needless to say, we abandoned that idea almost as quickly as it came up...
I didn't talk about it, I done container planting, I used andywaterproof square containers I could find, usually ones from markets and I lined them, filled them with soil and planted, only shallow root stuff, like salad and herbs, I also had hanging pot holders, when ever we stopped I would take the plants out in the sun and give them a good watering. Whilst we were driving they would be under the table. Herbs were usually on the dashboard. I really wanted to do a roof garden but never got round to it.
I have seen people travelling with chickens, they were in a trailer behind and every time they stopped they would let them out, away from traffic of course. They had a couple of dogs that grew up with the chickens and kept other dogs away from them. It was a great set up. Anything is possible!